Turning Unemployment into Self-Employment:Effectiveness and Efficiency of Two Start-UpProgrammes

Turning unemployment into self-employment has become a major focus of German activelabour market policy (ALMP) in recent years. If effective, this would not only reduceGermanys persistently high unemployment rate, but also increase its notoriously low selfemploymentrate. Empirical evidence on the effectiveness of such programmes is scarce.The contribution of the present paper is twofold: first, we evaluate the effectiveness of twostart-up programmes for the unemployed...

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Year of publication:	2007-03-01
Authors:	Baumgartner, Hans. J. ; Caliendo, Marco
Institutions:	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn>
Subject:	Arbeitslosigkeit \| unemployment \| Effizienz \| Selbständige Arbeit

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Extent:	492544 bytes 38 p. application/pdf
Series:	IZA - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit - Discussion Papers IZA Discussion Paper ; No. 2660 (2007)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Classification:	C14 - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods ; H43 - Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate ; J68 - Public Policy ; M13 - Entrepreneurship ; Management and organisation. Other aspects ; Ergonomic job analysis ; Individual Working Papers, Preprints ; No country specification
Source:	USB Cologne (business full texts)

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